Many a necklace becomes a noose.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back.

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.

Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.

Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.